I'm old enough to remember gopher, then mosaic, then netscape navigator, and a web that had only a few dozen sites. Then there was altavista and metacrawler, a

I'm old enough to remember gopher, then mosaic, then netscape navigator, and a web that had only a few dozen sites. Then there was altavista and metacrawler, and of course yahoo. In our (physics) department of 20 people back in the 90s and 00s, no-one ever used yahoo: its 'directory' listing of websites never sat well with any of us, and we never used it: it just felt wrong and cumbersome. In fact the longer yahoo stayed around the more we joked about it. I am still astonished yahoo is still around now, I always felt it was doomed to failure back in the 90s.